#helpvets Flashback: Republicans Block VA Health Care Funds: http:Proof it is the Republicans to blame for VA problems by blocking Berny Sanders bill...

And all the Fox Boobs and clear channel radio stations that fired all the commentators of the radio stations they bought and brought in their own, like Rush Limbaugh, who they gav e a $400,000,000 dollar 8 year contract ($50,000,000 a year) to spew out garbage day after day like a broken record... also, sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and a whole host of others continue to blame Obama and the Democrats for all the problems with Health Care... They continue to mock the ACA despite it does not affect them or their health insurance since most of these bastards are millionaires. Makes you wonder if they are also on the Koch Payroll like Paul Ryan, Speaker Boehner, Mitch M. and all the Tea Party shills that got elected into the house of representatives along with all the Tea Party governors that rejected Medicaid expansion.

Just take 5 and scroll down my twitter feed and share these with your friends to help us @ #uniteblue get our message out to the voters so as to inspire voter turnout to vote these bastards out of office.

https://twitter.com/RACmoveToAmend

They say a picture is worth 1000 words, well I've put together hundreds of pictures that reveal all the dirty tricks the Republicans have been doing to screw the poor. the link above will show them in picture form...

http://uniteblue.org/user/RACmoveToAmend

Ya your right Alice America sure doesn't need hard working job creating people like me that pay hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to vote. What would America become.

Kend: Democrats are asking that the wealthy only pay/contribute their FAIR SHARE to the government and society and country that has afforded them so much. The only thing they came to the table with was an idea--the rest of us did the work. We extracted the raw materials. We made. We delivered/transported. We bought. We sold. We paid taxes, so they could rake in subidies and obtain low-interest loans (while the rest of us are raked over the coals in high interest) and pay the settlements for lawsuits brought against them for shody product that harms the customer and fellow citizen. We built and operate and maintain the roads and bridges and ports and railroads they use for NO COST or very little cost. They did not do it all themselves. They had help--lots of it--and are spitting on that help. They are ungrateful, ill-mannered,...

They (the wealthy and, by association and complicity, rethuglicans) have made the environment hostile for small business, while pretending to be for them, as they have the ear of our legislative and judicial branches and MAKE policy. Competition is a joke to them. Market share are falacy. They want all of a market

Fair is all people want. We want to rear our families in peace and health, have a home, have a job that pays living wages, retire without fear. The wealthy treat the real people who do their real work and who buy that work with general disdain. History shows that they will pay the ultimate price for greed and selfishness--something they began, they perpetuate, and should expect unless they change. Only they can stop this eventuality.

I don't see anything to admire about the wealthy and the rich-ass-kissers who defend them. They have ruined and are contributing to the downfall of the United States, as they did in Rome and Russia and France and China and.... They are unpatriotic, criminals, and traitors. And they should be judged as such.

For the readers who get bored of reading. Listen to music and read. Behance

Loren, you never fail to put a smile on my face.

Such nocturnal old bohemian socialists, we are! And proud of it. - AIW

Allen Ginsberg, whom I vaguely knew, held forth at great length about Dylan's "Hurricane" (on the 1974 album Desire) being the fulfillment of the poetry/music blend that came out of the Beat era, and for maybe three years I accepted that as aesthetic gospel. Then a woman I was involved with introduced me to Waits' work, which I have felt ever since truly IS that fulfillment of which Ginsberg spoke. But this -- this YouTube cut I just posted -- blew my mind. I have the original remixed on CD and as we both know, it's superb. But this variant on YouTube is truly something else. And that's gotta be the most deliciously rowdy whorehouse sax I've heard in years, maybe ever.

Figured you would be, Alice. Bet our record collections -- LPs back in the day, CDs now -- contain lots of duplicates.

For those who unfortunately do not know Tom Waits and his bitingly relevant cutting-edge work -- rap before there was such a thing -- here is "Step Right Up":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdqh0GsXMII&feature=kp

Hello, Alice. Always a joy to see you!

At various times on this forum I've said our culture nurtures psychopathy. Thom has just done an excellent job validating my point. Excessive wealth warps personalities.

Take our two-tiered justice system, for example; one that punishes rich people's misdeeds with velvet gloves while in stark contrast, bringing down the sledge hammer on anyone else who breaks the law. The wealthy are "above" the law, therefore they don't have to act ethically or responsibly. They don't even have to grow up, no matter how old they are. Thus our culture encourages psychopathy and narcissism in the upper classes.

Understanding the needs & feelings of others, giving back to society, earning one's keep, supporting causes greater than one's self interest… all these things are part of what it means to be a mature adult. Therefore each one of these well-heeled brats Thom describes is just another case of arrested development. Overcompensation and unearned privilege are largely if not exclusively to blame. In a caste system such as ours, "nice guys finish last" is more than a cliche; it's reality.

Meanwhile right-wingers love projecting their worst characteristics on the rest of us. It's how they exonerate themselves… all of it false pretense, of course. Unfortunately too many people still buy the lie that millionaires & billionaires "earn" what they've got, or that they possess a special talent or characteristic making them somehow more worthy, more deserving, than the rest of us. All of it hogwash, of course…

Like ole Jim Morrison shouted onstage, at the booing crowd: "You're all a bunch of slaves!" Or just sorry suckers. Take your pick. - Aliceinwonderland

Austerity is genocide without the (now-unfashionable) death camps. From the perspective of the One Percent, it has the added bonus of enabling the Ruling Class to blame the victims: "she chose to pay her rent rather than buy her medications and she died; it's all her fault."

Such is capitalist governance -- and it will get unimaginably more savage, probably even death-camp savage -- before there arises an organized resistance with enough solidarity and discipline to overcome it.